Racing Roundup #013
Our curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
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Racing Roundup #012
Our curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
18 IMOCA pairs set to do battle in the Transat Café l’OR
The final IMOCA race of the 2025 season gets underway from Le Havre for Martinique in the Caribbean on Sunday, and it looks set to be a thriller featuring some of the top boats and sailors in the Class ready to push hard for victory.
Racing Roundup #011
Our curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
Olympic innovation
Gottifredi Maffioli takes the trapeze cleat to a new level of sophistication.
Racing Roundup #010
Our curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
Racing Roundup #009
Our curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
Argo Challenge: A 20-year quest to bring disabled sailors into the America’s Cup
Antonio Spinelli’s revived Argo Challenge is bidding to field international teams of disabled sailors in the Youth and Women’s America’s Cup at AC38, with hopes of racing in the AC40 prelims too. Backed by Lars Grael and Heiko Kroger, the project seeks funding and approval to make history.
Racing Roundup #008
Our curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
Ainslie and Dalton on the new America's Cup landscape
As few as four and as many as seven – that’s the range of potential entries that Challenger of Record CEO Ben Ainslie believes is in prospect for the 38th edition of the America’s Cup.
Emirates Team New Zealand announce new sailors and sail for first time in AC38
Almost a year to the day since Emirates Team New Zealand sealed victory in the 37th America’s Cup in Barcelona, Spain, the Kiwi syndicate has taken to the water for the first time in their latest campaign to mount a defence of sailing’s biggest prize.
Podcast: Iain Percy – CEO Artemis SailGP Team
My guest on the latest episode of the Yacht Racing Life Podcast is British triple-Olympic medallist Ian Percy, CEO of Artemis Technologies and the newly-announced Swedish Artemis SailGP team – which will be skippered by Nathan Outteridge in Season 6 of the global high-performance circuit.
New global partnership agreement paves the way for a ‘supercharged’ America’s Cup
The America’s Cup has entered a new era today with the welcome news that the terms of the much-anticipated America’s Cup Partnership have been agreed by all the teams planning to participate in the 38th edition of sailing’s oldest and most prestigious competition.
Racing Roundup #007
Our curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
Podcast: 2025 OK Dinghy World Champion Andrew Mills
My guest on the latest episode of the Yacht Racing Life Podcast is British dinghy sailor Andrew Mills, a past Olympic campaigner in the Finn class who recently won the International OK Dinghy World Championship after topping a fleet of 212 boats during a week-long series on Lake Garda, Italy.
Thinking inside the drum
Designing around a motor required a blank-sheet approach in creating Harken’s latest product, DynaDrive – a winch that puts power to the fore.